Unicorns
summary
History traces unicorn lore from the Indus Valley to Aristotle to medieval Christian allegory then to scams selling narwhal tusks as miraculous horn and Marco Polo misidentifying a rhinoceros as a unicorn and Leonardo sketching a bait-with-virgin trap. Main claim is blunt: unicorns do not exist and claims of unique, unsolvable problems usually mask avoidable choices. Concrete antidotes listed are adopt standards like C++11/14/17/20 use third party libraries unit testing agile CI CD and learn from peers.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:25Unicorn begins
- 0:53Enter the Greeks
- 2:05Age of Discovery
- 2:33Leonardo to the rescue!
- 3:24Why do I keep hearing this?
- 4:19Ending the Unicorn Syndrome
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